Open source has been a consistent trend for the past years, as more and more commercial companies are getting involved, sponsor and promote such projects. It is more common for companies in the Internet industry to use a mix of open source and proprietary software and make use of a large number of technologies coming out of the open source community. Take Linux, an open source operating system, on which a high number of companies run, and probably the best example of the open source joint efforts.

24 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the first toolset for web-development. It involved 18 HTML tags and no technologies like CSS or JavaScript. Back then, the issue of application security was not truly existing. Today, in order to build even a basic website, a web-developer or a team have to consider many technologies, frameworks and approaches, and select those suitable for each particular project.